No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Steve Jones

No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

Steve Jones

384 pages • first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today’s physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. ...

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